Odo of Orléans

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Odo von Orléans (* before 798; † 834 ) is probably identical with Count Udo the Elder in the Lahngau (not to be confused with Udo (the younger) in the Lahngau ). Udo / Odo was first Count in the Rhineland / Lahngau, where he is attested from 821 to 826, and from 828 to 834 Count of Orléans .

ancestry

There is some uncertainty as to whether the count was Udo , Uodo , Odo , Eudes or Otto , as all these names refer to the same person in different sources. He was probably a son of Count Erbio († after 808) and a daughter (Gerberga?) Of Count Wilhelm of Aquitaine, whose name was unknown . This would make him a grandson of Prefect Gerold II on his father's side (brother-in-law of Charlemagne and governor of Bavaria after the fall of Tassilo ), and on his mother's side a cousin of Count Bernhard I of Barcelona . Many historians also consider him the father of the Franconian Dux (Duke) Count Gebhard im Lahngau , who is regarded as the progenitor of the East Franconian Konradines .

Count in Rhineland / Lahngau

Udo / Odo is attested as a count in the Rhineland / Lahngau between 821 and 826, but then served in the western part of the Carolingian Empire as a loyal follower of Emperor Ludwig the Pious , whom he received during the uprisings of the imperial sons ( Lothar I , Ludwig the German , Pippin of Aquitaine ) remained loyal. In the Rhineland he was mentioned for the last time in 826 in the Palatinate zu Ingelheim (June 24th), where he acted as thigh ( cupbearer of the imperial court, pincerna imperatoris ) on the famous court day . The cupbearer was one of the four most important secular court officials ( minsteralis regis , minsteralis imperatoris ) in the general palace and court administration ( Ordine Palatini ) of the Carolingians , which Count Odo had held since 819. According to the Capitulare missorum , a.819 (MGH Capt. 1 No. 141), Count “ Odo buticularius de foreste sua interrogansus ” had to give an imperial missus a question and answer about said “foreste” (forest, hunting ground). Britta Mischke suspects: "The commissioned Missus should clarify the case through an investigation and decide for herself in the name of the emperor according to what turned out to be true."

Count of Orléans

Odo-Udo was a favorite of the Empress Judith and belonged to the circle of counts around his cousin Bernhard I of Barcelona. When the Counts Matfried I. von Orléans and Hugo von Tours were punished at a imperial assembly in February 828 in Aachen for their failure in the uprising in the Spanish mark with the loss of their offices and fiefs, Udo received the county of Orléans . He married a sister of Seneschal Adalhard , Ingeltrud, daughter of Count Leuthard von Fézensac from the Matfriede family .

In April 830, before the army assembly called for April 14, 830 in Rennes , Pippin I of Aquitaine rose against his father Louis the Pious. He marched to Orléans , where he expelled Udo and reinstated his predecessor, Matfried (Matfrid). At the imperial assembly in Compiègne at the end of April or beginning of May 830 (at which Ludwig "pardoned" his wife Judith in monastery imprisonment and the brother of the escaped Bernhard of Barcelona, ​​Heribert, was blinded on Lothar's order ), Udo, who was loyal to the emperor, was sent at the instigation of the rebellious emperor sons Pippin and Lothar were exiled to Italy .

With the reinstatement of Emperor Ludwig in October 830, Odo also returned to his position as Count of Orléans. He drew violent hatred through his interventions in the church property.

An army campaign led by him in June 834 to Neustria against Count Lambert of Nantes and Matfried von Orléans, partisans of the rebellious Lothar, to whom the exile of the areas between the Seine and Loire as far as Upper Burgundy had been mobilized, ended in a devastating defeat . Odo's army devastated the country and went to the Breton border , confident of victory . There it was defeated in a bloody fight after a surprise attack by Lambert and Matfried. Odo himself fell, as did his brother, Count Wilhelm of Blois, Count Wido of Maine, Count Fulbert and the imperial chancellor, Abbot Theudo (Theoto) of Tours.

progeny

Odo and Ingeltrud had three children:

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Rüdiger E. Barth: The Duke in Lotharingien in the 10th century. Stuttgart 1998.
  2. ↑ MGH Capit. 1 No. 155 c.6.
  3. ↑ Britta Mischke: Capitular rights and document practice under Emperor Ludwig the Pious (814-840). Inaugugual dissertation, University of Bonn 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Odo of Orléans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Udo in Lahngau; Otto; Uodo; Eudes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Earl of Orleans
DATE OF BIRTH before 798
DATE OF DEATH 834